The phase space elementary cell in classical and generalized statistics

DOI10.3390/E15104319MaRDI QIDQ280646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piero Quarati, Marcello Lissia

Publication date 10 May 2016

Published in Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04463

zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamicsclassical statistical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21)

Abstract: In the past, the phase-space elementary cell of a non-quantized system was set equal to the third power of the Planck constant; in fact, it is not a necessary assumption. We discuss how the phase space volume, the number of states and the elementary-cell volume of a system of non-interacting N particles, changes when an interaction is switched on and the system becomes or evolves to a system of correlated non-Boltzmann particles and derives the appropriate expressions. Even if we assume that nowadays the volume of the elementary cell is equal to the cube of the Planck constant, h^3, at least for quantum systems, we show that there is a correspondence between different values of h in the past, with important and, in principle, measurable cosmological and astrophysical consequences, and systems with an effective smaller (or even larger) phase-space volume described by non-extensive generalized statistics.

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